Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers, business people and anyone with something compelling to say about the country that's reshaping the world. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo.

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Talking Past Each Other: Pallavi Aiyar on India, China, and the Case for Cognitive Empathy 2026-08-18 · 80m
The Future, Made in China: Evan Osnos on America's Reckoning 2026-08-10 · 95m
Samm Sacks and Paul Triolo on WAIC 2026, Xi's AI Speech, and Kimi K3 2026-07-23 · 98m
The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy 2026-07-08 · 64m
Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict 2026-06-30 · 53m
China Shock 2.0: This Time It's Europe, with Adam Tooze 2026-06-24 · 47m
"But China!": Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning 2026-06-17 · 114m
The Texas Paradox: How the Most Anti-China State Is Building America's China Capacity 2026-06-03 · 102m
The View from Everywhere Else: Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summits 2026-05-26 · 81m
To Rule All Under Heaven: Andrew Meyer on His New Popular History of the Warring States 2026-05-21 · 81m
"Constructive Strategic Stability": Ali Wyne of the International Crisis Group on the Trump-Xi Summit 2026-05-17 · 66m
"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 4: The AI Race Reconsidered 2026-05-17 · 36m
The Poetry of Zheng Xiaoqiong: A Conversation with Translator Eleanor Goodman 2026-05-06 · 72m
"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 3: Tech, Rivalry, and Competing Visions of the Future 2026-05-01 · 66m
Spain's China Gambit: Pedro Sánchez, Strategic Autonomy, and the European Turn to Beijing — with Mario Esteban Rodríguez 2026-04-22 · 66m
"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 2: What Does the United States Want? 2026-04-15 · 67m
"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 1: What China Wants 2026-04-09 · 68m
Adam Tooze is Chinamaxxing! 2026-04-02 · 86m
Is China Trying to Sever Plato from NATO? Chang Che on Beijing's Embrace of the Greco-Roman Classics 2026-03-26 · 78m
Edge of Ruin: Mike Lampton and Wang Jisi’s Warning on U.S.-China Relations 2026-03-19 · 93m
Governing Digital China, with Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo 2026-03-12 · 68m
Yi-Ling Liu on The Wall Dancers: China's Internet, Its Creative Spirits, and the Art of the Possible 2026-02-25 · 78m
Kyle Chan on the Great Reversal in Global Technology Flows 2026-02-18 · 81m
Brookings' Patricia Kim Takes Stock of Trump's Second-Term China Policy 2026-02-11 · 65m
Uneasy Calm: Ryan Hass on Three Pathways for U.S.-China Relations Under Trump 2026-02-04 · 64m
Afra Wang on "The Morning Star of Lingao" (临高启明) and the Rise and Reckoning of China's "Industrial Party" 2026-01-28 · 85m
The Highest Exam: Jia Ruixue and Li Hongbin on China's Gaokao and What It Reveals About Chinese Society 2026-01-21 · 76m
Daniel Bessner on American Primacy, Cold War Liberalism, and the China Challenge 2026-01-14 · 64m
Eric Olander: After the Maduro Capture — Assessing China's Real Exposure in Venezuela 2026-01-08 · 70m
Michael Brenes and Van Jackson on Why U.S.-China Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy 2026-01-02 · 63m
Paul Triolo on Nvidia H200s, Chinese EUV Breakthroughs, and the Collapse of the Sullivan Doctrine 2025-12-26 · 85m
Mark Sidel on China's Oversight of Foreign NGOs: Eight Years of the Overseas NGO Law 2025-12-17 · 64m
Guest Host Iza Ding with Deborah Seligsohn: Inside COP30 in Belem, Brazil, and China's Climate Leadership 2025-12-10 · 126m
Murder House: Zhong Na on the Silicon Valley Tragedy That Exposed the Cracks in China's Meritocracy 2025-12-03 · 50m
Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP on Nexperia, Export Controls, and Europe's Impossible Position 2025-11-20 · 51m
We Were Right: Kaiser and Jeremy Reunite to Riff on the China Vibe Shift 2025-11-11 · 54m
Lizzi Lee on Involution, Overcapacity, and China's Economic Model 2025-11-05 · 85m
Foreign Affairs Editor Daniel Kurtz-Phelan on Shifting Views of China 2025-10-30 · 65m
The View from Behind Xi Jinping's Desk, with Jonathan Czin 2025-10-21 · 80m
The Symbolism of the Flying Tigers: Peking University's Wang Dong on the American Volunteer Group and its Historical and Diplomatic Usages 2025-09-29 · 39m
Jasmine Sun on Silicon Valley through a Chinese Mirror 2025-09-22 · 71m
Yascha Mounk on China and Western Liberalism 2025-09-17 · 82m
What Did the September 3 Parade Mean? 2025-09-10 · 103m
What Does China Want? The Authors of a New Paper Challenge the DC Consensus 2025-09-02 · 90m
Trump's India Tariff Tirade: A Gift to Beijing? With Evan Feigenbaum 2025-08-27 · 64m
The Engineering State and the Lawyerly Society: Dan Wang on his new book "Breakneck" 2025-08-21 · 93m
Chinese and U.S. AI Applications in Public Administration: Lessons and Implications for Ukraine 2025-08-14 · 79m
Nuclear Weapons, Ukraine, and Great-Power Competition 2025-08-12 · 73m
The World AI Conference in Shanghai: Two tech veterans share their impressions 2025-08-06 · 86m
Chinese Cooking Demystified: Chris Thomas and Stephanie Li visit Shaxi! 2025-07-30 · 78m
Adam Tooze Climbs the China Learning Curve 2025-07-16 · 63m
Carnegie's Tong Zhao on the Expansion of China's Nuclear Arsenal 2025-06-25 · 70m
The Strange Afterlife of an American Football Story from China 2025-06-18 · 45m
The Raider: China and the Life of Evans Carlson, with Historian Stephen Platt 2025-06-11 · 82m
Industrial Policy, "Overcapacity," and U.S.-China Trade: A Conversation with Cambridge's Jostein Hauge 2025-06-10 · 68m
Seeking the Next DeepSeek: the Chinese Generative AI Algorithm Registry, with Kendra Schaefer 2025-06-04 · 64m
Bonus Ep: Rubio's Visa Revocations, with Jeremy Goldkorn [Explicit] 2025-05-29 · 50m
Ukraine, China, and the Emerging Geopolitics of Resource Security 2025-05-22 · 89m
House of Huawei: Eva Dou of the Washington Post on Her New "Secret History" of Huawei 2025-05-21 · 69m
NEW! China Talking Points Ep. 1: Trade Truce, J-10C Dogfight, and What Comes Next 2025-05-15 · 65m
China's DeepSeek Moment — a talk given April 17 2025 at Carnegie Mellon 2025-05-14 · 31m
Broken Engagement: Veteran China reporter Bob Davis on his new collection of interviews 2025-05-07 · 76m
The EU-China Relationship in the Age of Trumpian Disruption, with Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP 2025-04-29 · 67m
Live at Pitt: CMU's Benno Weiner on the Evolution of China's Minzu Policy 2025-04-23 · 52m
Sinica Live at Columbia University, with Yawei Liu and Yukon Huang 2025-04-17 · 58m
Life, Love, and Loss in China: Hazza Harding's story of resilience 2025-04-03 · 79m
Is China Gaining Ground in Technology Diffusion? A Conversation with Jeffrey Ding 2025-03-27 · 46m
Evolutionary Psychology and International Relations, with Jeremy Garlick 2025-03-21 · 86m
Live in Berkeley: Jessica Chen Weiss and Ryan Hass on the U.S. and China in 2025 2025-03-12 · 62m
Introducing the Trivium Podcast, now on the Sinica Network 2025-03-06 · 78m
Studying China in the Absence of Access: Rediscovering a Lost Art — Part 2, with Alice Miller and Joseph Fewsmith 2025-02-27 · 83m
China’s Strategy in Global Power Transitions: Challenges in a Turbulent World — A panel discussion 2025-02-24 · 70m
The War for Chinese Talent in America, with David Zweig 2025-02-23 · 74m
Getting China Right: Senator Andy Kim at the Hopkins SAIS Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs 2025-02-14 · 70m
Back to the 80s: For Trump, is China the New Japan? with Andy Liu 2025-02-13 · 65m
Is the U.S. Experiencing a Narrative Shift on China? 2025-02-03 · 62m
The State of China, with Adam Tooze, Qing Wang, and Zichen Wang — Moderated by Finbarr Bermingham of SCMP 2025-01-30 · 49m
New Podcast Series – "Studying China in the Absence of Access: Rediscovering a Lost Art" from Johns Hopkins SAIS 2025-01-23 · 75m
Xiaohongshu's "TikTok Refugees," with Ivy Yang and David Fishman 2025-01-19 · 64m
Lizzi Lee on China's Economy and the Trump Presidency 2025-01-16 · 81m
Inside Shen Yun and the Epoch Times, with NYT's Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld 2025-01-09 · 68m
Under Pressure: Michael Cerny and Rory Truex on China Discourse in the U.S. Foreign Policy Community 2025-01-02 · 66m
Australia, China, and the Economics-Security Nexus with Amy King of ANU 2024-12-19 · 82m
China's EV Explosion, with Ilaria Mazzocco of CSIS 2024-12-12 · 74m
Jane Hayward of King's College on Teaching China through YouTube 2024-12-05 · 51m
U.S.-China Crisis Management and Crisis Prevention, with Michael Swaine 2024-11-21 · 77m
Granta's Chinese Literature Issue: A Chat with Editor Thomas Meaney 2024-11-14 · 69m
Decoupling, De-risking, and the Great U.S.-China Disconnect, with Supply Chain Expert Cameron Johnson 2024-11-07 · 62m
Tsinghua's Da Wei: New Survey Research on Chinese Perceptions of Security 2024-10-31 · 59m
Xinhua's Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang of "Got China" Get Western Journalism 2024-10-24 · 55m
Veteran China Ad Man Bryce Whitwam on China's Livestreaming e-Commerce Market 2024-10-17 · 58m
Retrofitting Leninism and Re-examining Hawkishness in China with Dimitar Gueorguiev 2024-10-10 · 72m
Criticism and Conscience: A Conversation with David Moser 2024-10-04 · 81m
The Case Against the China Consensus, with Jessica Chen Weiss of SAIS 2024-09-26 · 53m
Space Debris: How Can the U.S. and China Avoid the Tragedy of the Commons, with Nainika Sudheendra 2024-09-19 · 47m
Priority Pluralism: Rethinking Universal Values in U.S.-China Relations 2024-09-16 · 39m
The Chinese Game Industry’s Journey to the West — Rui Ma and Rob Wynne on the Success of Black Myth: Wukong 2024-09-12 · 59m
The Tragedy of Old School Beijing Hip-Hop with Olivia Fu 2024-09-07 · 63m
Does Beijing Really Want Trump? 2024-08-28 · 16m
The Swifts of Beijing, with Terry Townshend of Birding Beijing 2024-08-15 · 58m
Bonus: A Free-Range Father in a Tiger Mom World — Reflections on Chinese and American Education 2024-08-14 · 13m
China's Response to U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls, with Paul Triolo and Kevin Xu 2024-08-08 · 95m
Eric Olander on China in the Global South 2024-08-01 · 64m
A Letter from Beijing 2024-07-25 · 34m
Anthony Tao: The Poetry and Soul of Beijing 2024-07-18 · 62m
Sinica Unscripted: Wang Zichen of CCG with a Third Plenum Preview and more 2024-07-12 · 57m
Improbable Diplomats: Historian Pete Millwood on how Scientific and Cultural Exchange Remade U.S.-China Relations 2024-07-11 · 80m
Adam Tooze on the U.S., China, the Energy Transition — and Saying the Unsayable 2024-07-04 · 66m
An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 2 2024-06-27 · 75m
An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 1 2024-06-20 · 74m
Peter Hessler on his new book, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" 2024-06-13 · 86m
Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Sino-American Rivalry 2024-06-06 · 79m
Jonathan Chatwin on Deng Xiaoping's 1992 Southern Tour 2024-05-30 · 60m
Ed Lanfranco: from Hoarder to Historian 2024-05-23 · 66m
Jay Kuo on Beijing's Gay 90s 2024-05-16 · 69m
The Struggle for Taiwan: Sulmaan Wasif Khan of Tufts University on his new book 2024-05-09 · 106m
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez on her new podcast series, Face-Off 2024-05-02 · 62m
Political Scientist Iza Ding on Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, and "Resilience" 2024-04-25 · 60m
The View from China: Leading IR scholar Da Wei of Tsinghua's CISS 2024-04-18 · 85m
Did Netflix's Adaptation Ruin The Three-Body Problem? 2024-04-11 · 70m
Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently? 2024-04-03 · 49m
Back to the Future: David M. Lampton and Thomas Fingar on What Went Wrong and How to Fix It 2024-03-27 · 84m
Kerry Brown: on What does the West Wants from China, and the Exercise of Chinese Power 2024-03-21 · 91m
Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria 2024-03-14 · 68m
Schwarzman Scholars Capstone Showcase: The 2023 Winners 2024-03-07 · 84m
The Ukrainian Factor in China's Strategy: a roundtable 2024-02-29 · 87m
Peter Hessler, live at Duke University's Nasher Museum 2024-02-22 · 79m
This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication — February 12, 1912 2024-02-16 · 12m
Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with Jeremy Goldkorn 2024-02-15 · 87m
Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander 2023-11-09 · 63m
In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022 2023-10-26 · 89m
Live from Chicago: Decoding China — China’s economic miracle interrupted? 2023-10-19 · 56m
Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on the morality of U.S. China policy 2023-10-12 · 129m
China Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking 2023-10-05 · 76m
The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour 2023-09-28 · 55m
Ian Johnson on "Sparks," his new book on China's underground historians 2023-09-21 · 68m
U.S. Congressman Rick Larsen (D-WA) on his new U.S.-China policy white paper 2023-09-14 · 45m
The case for the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement 2023-09-07 · 67m
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book 2023-08-31 · 127m
China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China's HIstory 2023-08-24 · 68m
Wargaming a Taiwan invasion scenario: Lyle Goldstein on the CSIS wargame “The First Battle of the Next War" 2023-08-17 · 68m
The state of play of generative AI in China, with Paul Triolo 2023-08-10 · 66m
Is the Biden administration resetting U.S.-China relations? 2023-08-03 · 83m
The CFR Taiwan task force report: advice and dissent, with Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer 2023-07-27 · 57m
Transnational repression and China's "overseas police stations," with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center 2023-07-20 · 45m
China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space 2023-07-13 · 50m
China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities 2023-07-06 · 52m
Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder 2023-06-19 · 53m
Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook" 2023-06-15 · 85m
David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China 2023-06-08 · 75m
Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS 2023-06-01 · 71m
Harvard's William Kirby on China's higher education system and his book "Empires of Ideas" 2023-05-25 · 84m
Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in 2023-05-18 · 47m
China's draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum 2023-05-11 · 65m
Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly? 2023-05-04 · 58m
Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition? 2023-04-27 · 56m
Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China" 2023-04-20 · 73m
As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani 2023-04-13 · 60m
Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews 2023-04-06 · 64m
The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis 2023-03-30 · 58m
Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, with Tuvia Gering 2023-03-23 · 68m
The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova 2023-03-23 · 29m
The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang 2023-03-16 · 80m
Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China 2023-03-09 · 61m
Inside Tencent's "Influence Empire," with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen 2023-03-09 · 65m
China and the electric vehicle battery supply chain, with Henry Sanderson 2023-03-02 · 48m
China and the Ukraine War one year after the invasion, with Evan Feigenbaum and Alexander Gabuev 2023-02-23 · 60m
Sinostan: Raffaello Pantucci on China's inadvertent empire in Central Asia 2023-02-16 · 77m
CSIS analyst Gerard DiPippo deflates the balloon hype and brings the discussion back to earth 2023-02-06 · 31m
Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson 2023-02-02 · 56m
Is China's demography China's destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman 2023-01-25 · 51m
A firsthand view of China's chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn 2023-01-19 · 80m
Talking China on TikTok with The China Project's Susan St. Denis 2023-01-12 · 45m
The Sinica Network presents Strangers in China S3 Episode 1 2023-01-06 · 97m
No Stranger to China: A conversation with Strangers in China creator Clay Baldo about Season 3 2023-01-05 · 57m
Author Rebecca Kuang on her novel Babel, or on the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution 2022-12-29 · 52m
The best solution for Taiwan is no solution: Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass argue for kicking the can down the road 2022-12-21 · 63m
China's push for RMB internationalization 2022-12-08 · 58m
A familiar drumbeat: Michael Mazarr on the run-up to the Iraq invasion and parallels with China 2022-12-01 · 64m
Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne 2022-11-29 · 67m
Financial Times reporter Yuan Yang on China-Europe relations 2022-11-23 · 54m
Evan Feigenbaum on the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region 2022-11-17 · 63m
New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter on balancing China competition and global imperatives 2022-11-10 · 71m
The 20th Party Congress postgame show with Damien Ma and Lizzi Lee 2022-11-02 · 61m
Grifter, chaos agent, or CCP spy? The New Yorker's Evan Osnos on Guo Wengui 2022-10-27 · 58m
Overreach and overreaction, with Susan Shirk 2022-10-20 · 66m
Podcasting The Prince: Sue-Lin Wong of The Economist on her Xi Jinping podcast 2022-10-13 · 67m
Legendary BBC presenter and China editor Carrie Gracie, live in London 2022-10-06 · 87m
A conversation with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Washington 2022-09-29 · 88m
China in the Global South, with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden 2022-09-22 · 72m
Surveillance State: Authors Josh Chin and Liza Lin on their new book on China's tech-enhanced social controls 2022-09-15 · 87m
Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience 2022-09-08 · 73m
Avoiding the China Trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss 2022-09-01 · 46m
Is China's bubble finally about to pop? A conversation with Bloomberg Chief Economist Tom Orlik 2022-08-25 · 56m
China's space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao 2022-08-18 · 61m
China and the American "great power opportunity," with Ali Wyne 2022-08-11 · 89m
Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in 2022-08-04 · 58m
The Sinica Network presents the Café & Seda (Coffee & Silk) Podcast 2022-07-28 · 47m
Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft 2022-07-21 · 67m
Semiconductors and the unspoken U.S. tech policy on China, with Paul Triolo 2022-07-15 · 68m
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